Joe Cole: I need to do better for Liverpool

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Cole admits that he has failed to live up to expectations after his move from ChelseaCarl Recine/Action Images

Doug Gratton

Last updated at 4:50PM, October 18 2010

It may have escaped Roy Hodgson’s attention that Liverpool are playing badly,
but Joe Cole at least is not burying his head in the sand.

Hodgson, the Liverpool manager, risked ridicule when he said that the 2-0
defeat by Everton in the Merseyside derby yesterday was the best performance
of his time at the club. But even if the manager refuses to see what appears
obvious to some, Cole was unflinching in his analysis.

The midfield player, who moved to Anfield from Chelsea in the summer, has been
as much a source of problems as a solution to them as